Gratitude is linked with many physical, social and emotional benefits and is an important skill to foster with children and youth. When choosing an action to do so, however, research indicates that if the activity is forced or feels like homework it isn’t a good match. The outcome isn’t authentic and the results fall short of the potential benefits that experiencing gratitude offers. The most effective gratitude activities are ones that engage children’s interests and strengths.

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This is meant as an enrichment activity to dovetail with BC’s resources and economy. Also, it will demonstrate that while treaties, residential schools and the Indian Act set back and damaged Aboriginal culture and development, there are Aboriginal success stories. The lessons bring in themes of good resource management in BC. This offers some enrichment in business planning.

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In the process of “thinking globally but acting locally,” students will learn what challenges face peoples in Afghanistan.
Following the reading of The Breadwinner, students will review selected articles from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and demonstrate that they understand the concepts of human rights and of human rights violations through identifying and exploring human rights violations as portrayed within the novel. Students will be introduced to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. They will demonstrate that they understand the concepts of the rights of the child and of the violation of those rights through identifying and exploring human rights violations as portrayed within the novel Parvana’s Journey. Students will then explore and research an organization or a charity of their choice. By collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data related to an organization or a charity, they will begin to assess the impact of their financial contribution

Subject

Revised Curriculum

Cross-Curricular

Social Justice

English Language Arts

Social Studies

Keywords

Global Classroom initiative

social responsibility

global education

United Nations

Rights of the Child

charity

Learning Standards

BC Performance Standards for Social Responsibility: exercising Democratic Rights and Responsibilities by showing a growing sense of altruism and optimism — a commitment to making the world a better place.

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This classroom, school, or district-wide initiative is a call for children to transform toys of violence and war into art. Written by Sam Fillipoff and Susan Ruzic, this resource looks at how we can create a culture of peace in our schools and communities. If you start this initiative in your schools or have any questions, please email wartoystopeaceart.org to let them know. For more resources on this subject, copy and paste the following link into your browser: https://www.bctf.ca/SocialJustice.aspx?id=6214

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In Textiles arts and crafts you could explore the use of colour/colour theory through the trend of adult colouring books. This is a link to free printable bookmarks that your students could colour, as well as a lesson plan for discussing strategies for stress relief.

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In this unit, students will create their own “All About Me” book — about themselves, their families, and their community. They will be gathering information over several weeks and storing it in their own individual file folders. They will have special visitors and visit local landmarks in the community. In the end, they will put all their work together to create a book. They will celebrate the completion of their book at a “Meet the Author” afternoon with their caregivers.

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Everyone has a unique story to share. Stories help us learn about ourselves, our families, and other people. Curiosity and wonder leads us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us. By reading “And Tango Makes Three”, we not only learn about penguins and the penguin life cycle, but about other family structures (i.e. same-sex families) and how same-sex couples can become parents. This lesson plan can be used cross-curricula with Socials, PHE, ELA, and may also be used in Science (i.e. if combined with a stronger focus on the penguin life cycle, habitat, etc.)

Subject

Cross-Curricular

Social Justice

English Language Arts

Health and PE

Social Studies

Keywords

SOGI

LGBTQ

Same-sex families

human rights

Sexuality

Learning Standards

Socials K-3: Explore the ways in which individuals and families differ and are the same; diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives within the local and other communities; aspects of life shared by and common to different people (i.e. same-sex family structures/sexual orientation and identity)
PHE K-3: Caring behaviours in groups and families; develop and demonstrate respectful behaviour when participating in activities with others; identify personal skills, interests, and preferences and describe how they influence self-identity
ELA K-3: Recognize the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity; demonstrate awareness of the role that story plays in personal, family, and community identity; use personal experience and knowledge to connect to stories and other texts to make meaning; recognize the structure and elements of story; engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers to develop understanding of self, identity, and community

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Asia Pacific Memo covers a wide-range of issues, in a variety of Asia Pacific countries. But we’ve touched on similar topics more than once and sometimes weeks apart. We’ve categorized our Memos into Themes, so that our readers will be able to easily access all that we’ve offered on certain events and topics.

The assessment includes an evaluation rubric (for self or teacher assessment) and curricular competency checklist based on the CELF level A1 competency level. The assessment is modifiable and adaptable to use for French Immersion and other grade levels.

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This PowerPoint is for a session by Lisa Watson and Sasha Zekulin (Provincial Outreach Program for Early Intervention) that provided practical routines and strategies for designing a comprehensive literacy program supporting the core essentials of primary literacy development.

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Do you really know where your food comes from? Learn about BC's food system and how we produce, process, distribute, and acquire local food, following the story of produce, grains, dairy and salmon. Thousands of people across this province make their living in BC's food system, and in these videos, you're going to meet a few of them.

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Through this 6-lesson module from iMinds, students learn how to be detectives. They examine “clues” about the potential influences on a young person’s behaviour in order to solve a case involving three students who keep falling asleep in class. Module includes background material, lesson plans, and black-line masters.

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This iMinds instructional outline uses excerpts from Albert Hofmann's writings about his discovery of, and experiences with, LSD to challenge students to think critically about the benefits and risks associated with substance use and how we manage those in our society.

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"This guide and interactive map could be used as a standalone unit for Black History Month. It could also provide a valuable local perspective for teachers using the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, as one example. As well, this project will be very relevant within a unit or theme of multiculturalism and anti-racism."

The BlackStrathcona project offers students a window into the social history and geography of the Black community in Strathcona.
The purpose of this study guide is to support curriculums of English Language Arts 7 – 10 and Social Studies 7 – 10 in British Columbia.

As the new BC curriculum promotes a more inquiry-based approach to learning, the need to develop diverse digital literacies becomes even more crucial. But how can we keep up when new apps and programs keep popping up? In this PowerPoint used as part of his 2017 PSA Superconference keynote presentation, Ron Darvin talks about getting past an app-centred paradigm and to go back to what is at the core of digital literacy so that we can teach our students to be truly literate in the 21st century.

Jennifer Moroz presented at the 2017 PSA Superconference on how to assemble student portfolios that celebrate individual growth in curricular and core competencies, and how to use reading and writing performance standards as scaffolding to create personalized learning targets for every student. The linked zip files will provide many different BC teacher examples created and curated by Jennifer.

Bullets, Blood and Stones: the journey of a child soldier, brings students face to face with the child soldier situation that occurred in Uganda when infamous warlord, Joseph Kony, abducted 60,000 children and forced them to join his Lord’s Resistance Army. Teachers who have used this book in their classrooms note that student interest is high as the story is fast paced and the characters are very relatable. Real life events in the book provide a perfect teaching opportunity to contrast the lives of children in other parts of the world and challenge the way in which students view themselves and their place in society. Although events in the story are horrifying, there are moments of warmth and humour that are uplifting and give hope to the human condition. Teaching resources, including chapter by chapter discussion questions, activities, and a power point presentation, are available on the resource page of White’s website.

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For French Immersion primary or intermediate FSL classes, this calendar activity is a good routine to start the day. An abridged version of the calendar is provided on the bottom of the first page as a link to a web-based calendar in French. To advance to the next page, click on the "calendar" icon. To return to the main menu, click on the "year" icon.

Students are expected to know (gender and) number. Students are expected to know common, high-frequency vocabulary and sentence structures for communicating meaning, asking and responding to simple questions.

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This is a lesson plan for teachers who may be new to teaching about gender identity and are looking for a safe way to look at individuality as a starting point. This activity is about showing diversity and showing that it is ok to be different.

Subject

Arts Education

Fine Arts/Visual Arts

English Language Arts

Keywords

self discovery

diversity

gender

inquiry

feelings

identity

exploration

Learning Standards

Communication
I can understand and share information about a topic that is important to me
I communicate effectively in well-constructed forms that are effective in terms of my audience and purpose.
Creative Thinking
I deliberately learn a lot about something (e.g., by doing research, talking to others or practising) so that I am able to generate new ideas or ideas just pop into my head.
I can get new ideas in areas in which I have an interest and build my skills to make them work.

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The Canadian Teachers’ Federation and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights have worked in partnership to bring together a rich digital selection of human rights education resources for Kindergarten to Grade 12 in English and French. The resources in this toolkit were carefully reviewed by teachers and will link you to a variety of literature, media and lesson plans that can be used in the classroom.

The Canadian Letters and Images Project is an online archive of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves. Begun in August 2000, the Project is located in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University. Through the digitization of contemporary letters, diaries, photographs, and other related materials, the Project permits Canadians to tell their story, and Canada’s story, through their own words and images. The Teacher's Guide contains 12 English Language Arts and Social Studies lessons that support curricular competencies associated with historical thinking.

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Recent policy changes relative to cannabis are creating debates in Canadian society. When addressing complex issues like drug use, people often find it difficult to have productive conversations. Dialogue provides a different approach. Dialogue is a manner of communication that involves two-way conversations where people not only speak to each other but also really listen. The goal is to leave the conversation with a better understanding of each other and the different perspectives that make up a community.
School is a great context for citizens to acquire important dialogic skills. Cannabis legalization provides interesting opportunities to practice and hone these skills. “Turning to One Another” is a insightful poem by Margaret Wheatley about the power of talking with each other and creating social changes. This lesson uses the poem to explore different aspects of dialogue and its significance in the context of shifting policies regarding cannabis.

Big ideas:
Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives
Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens
Competencies:
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes

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This lesson uses Deborah Ellis’s short story “Through the Woods” as a catalyst for conversation around questions that are useful in examining the impact of cannabis use and regulation on individuals and relationships.
“Through the Woods” is about a day in the life of Matthew, a 14-year-old boy who buys cannabis at school to take to his ailing grandmother who raised him until she became too sick to care for him. The story is ripe with easy-to-see themes that young people are sure to question naturally and/or identify with (e.g., stereotypes about cannabis dealers, users and non-users; risks and rewards of selling/buying/using cannabis; and reasons for using). As such, the story can be used to help students develop their skills in asking good questions as they interact with a story and its characters in more complex ways. This lesson aims to deepen students’ understanding of relationships between peers, family members and others as well as the complex nature of human drug use.

English Language Arts 8/9
Big ideas:
Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world
Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens
Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Recognize how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message
Transform ideas and information to create original texts

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This is a cross curricular unit that incorporates art, PE, and language. Students create a mini carnaval at the end of the unit and facilitate their own stations, create masques and other visual pieces.

Subject

Languages

French/FSL

Keywords

Core French

FSL

Culture project

Carnaval

Learning Standards

Big Idea: Each culture has traditions and ways of celebrating.
Content:
Location of Francophone and Francophone Métis communities across Canada
A Francophone cultural festival or celebration in Canada

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In her 2017 PSA Superconference sessions, Carrie shared ideas of how to bring more interactive and engaging nonfiction read-alouds into your weekly routines and how to approach reading instruction through a Reading Workshop model. She includes links to read-aloud non-fiction and Reading Workshop resources on her website, https://thereisabookforthat.com.

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Catboy novel study: Using the novels Catboy and Hunter by Canadian author Eric Walters, students will make connections to real situations in their community and think critically about ideas and information to deepen and transform their understanding.

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Cultures around the world may vary, but one thing is common: wherever we find people, we also find cats and dogs. These education resources, lessons and worksheets aim to educate students about the characteristics of cats and dogs and their needs as domesticated animals. The lessons, student reading, video and activities provide more than just facts about cats and dogs. They help students understand the unique relationships these animals have shared with people for thousands of years. The lesson plans and activities also encourage your students to examine and discuss the important responsibilities people have in caring for cats and dogs and the many different ways that people live with these animals around the world, from country to country and culture to culture.

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Cultures around the world may vary, but one thing is common: wherever we find people, we also find cats and dogs. These education resources, lessons and worksheets aim to educate students about the characteristics of cats and dogs and their needs as domesticated animals. The lessons, student reading, video and activities provide more than just facts about cats and dogs. They help students understand the unique relationships these animals have shared with people for thousands of years. The lesson plans and activities also encourage your students to examine and discuss the important responsibilities people have in caring for cats and dogs and the many different ways that people live with these animals around the world, from country to country and culture to culture.

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Cultures around the world may vary, but one thing is common: wherever we find people, we also find cats and dogs.
These education resources, lessons and worksheets aim to educate students about the characteristics of cats and dogs and their needs as domesticated animals. The lessons, student reading, video and activities provide more than just facts about cats and dogs. They help students understand the unique relationships these animals have shared with people for thousands of years.
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Central and South America - Recipes from previous International Foods Resource Package

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